True story.
My brother, whose son Caden turns one year old next week (he is an adorable little monster), works as a bouncer at a bar down in NYC. For the purposes of this story, I need to reiterate: this place is a bar, not a bar/restaurant/pub/TGI Friday’s. Bands don’t perform behind chicken wire, but […]
CNN has cancelled Eliot Spitzer’s “In the Arena“, which was formerly “Parker/Spitzer” until co-host Kathleen Parker turned to him one day and said “wait, you’re that Eliot Spitzer?”
At first, the show was successful […]
Last night someone linked me to a story about same-sex marriage and in particular a recent poll showing that a slim majority of New Yorkers now opposed it.
I hit the brakes when I read that last part. […]
Tom Scharpling is a 21st Century Renaissance man: he’s been a comedy writer, host of “
We may scoff and laugh at the suggestion that the rapture will occur this Saturday, but there are signs of late that I simply cannot ignore. Are they onto something? Check out these seven signs of the […]
Disclaimer: The original title I wrote was “Bob Reilly sells MMA Vote to the Highest Bidder,” which was misleading and unnecessarily inflammatory. After some careful consideration and discussions with others in the comments section, it’s been changed.
UPDATE Friday 5/13/2011 10:11am – Since publishing yesterday, poster “Colonie” and a handful of other mutual friends/acquaintances have […]
As I write this, it’s 11:35pm on Sunday night and we have known Osama bin Laden has been dead for about forty-five minutes. Strangely, I don’t feel the same joy and exaltation that I hear and see other people expressing over the news.
The President finally took the podium a full hour after his scheduled […]
Some time ago, local mid-life scenester blog All Over Albany asked its readers to provide the penultimate definition of the term hipster. The term had been used as a barb in recent discussions, in particular concerning the great Albany chickens […]
Sad news came early Saturday morning when it was announced that film director Sidney Lumet had passed away.
Lumet was one of the foremost filmmakers in Hollywood at a time when the Director was King and given unprecedented control and room to experiment. His […]
New York Magazine contributor Benjamin Wallace recently profiled Sandra Lee, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s live-in girlfriend.
The article is well-written but doesn’t really tell us anything we don’t already know: Sandra Lee had a hard life, she’s beautiful, foodies hate her, etcetera and so on. There are, however, a few surprises, the biggest coming early in […]
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